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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 07:31:12 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
Subject: Re: Weird pty problem
Cc: bde@zeta.org.au
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>I  now have the following xterm  in background. It enables   me to open new
>ptys but eats a lot of CPU... 

>18477  p5  R      3:01.18 xterm -e sleep 10000000

>It  has taken over /dev/ttyp8  but as soon  as the  sleep  ends, it will be
>"free" again. pstat -t shows that

>64 pty lines
>  LINE RAW CAN OUT  HWT LWT     COL STATE  SESS  PGID DISC
>  ttyp0  0   0   0 1296 256       0 OCc  ef2c00 11999 term
>  ...
>  ttyp8  0   0   0 1296 256     108 OCZ  de1580 12923 term

Is this part of the problem or the solution?

The state OCZ can't happen :-) (Z implies !C).

Bruce